Use the passage from a speech by Representative Barbara Jordan to anawer the question. Which rhetorical techniques are demonstrated in this passage? Select the two correct answers.

Answer 1

To those who say we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say this civil-rights program is an infringement on state rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

- rhetorical question
- parallelism
- metaphor
- allusion
- irony